The People's Work: A Social History of the Liturgy
ISBN: 9780800697679 | 0800697677
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub
Pub. Date: 8/1/2010
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In this first book to document the full history of ordinary Christians' liturgical expression, distinguished liturgical historian and theologian Frank Senn ventures behind the liturgical screen, behind the texts, and behind the rubrics to reconstruct the structures of everyday religious expression in Christian history. Book jacket.
| Illustrations | p. iv |
| Acknowledgments | p. v |
| Introduction: What Is a Social History of the Liturgy? | p. 1 |
| Sociologically Speaking, What Kind of Group Was the Christian Assembly? | p. 9 |
| Sacraments and Cult | p. 27 |
| Apocalypse and Christian Liturgy | p. 43 |
| Times, Occasions, and the Communion of Saints | p. 62 |
| Sacred Places and Liturgical Art in Late Antique Culture | ... MORE |
| People and Places for Different Liturgies | p. 99 |
| Church Music through the Carolingian Renaissance | p. 114 |
| Vernacular Elements in the Medieval Latin Mass | p. 132 |
| The Medieval Liturgical Calendar | p. 147 |
| The Eucharistic Body and the Social Body in the Middle Ages | p. 167 |
| The Dissolution of the Social Body in the Reformation Communion | p. 183 |
| Death Here and Life Hereafter in the Middle Ages and Reformation | p. 199 |
| The Ecclesiastical Captivity of Marriage | p. 214 |
| Liturgy and Confessional Identity | p. 224 |
| Popular Devotions, pious Communities, and Holy Communion | p. 240 |
| Worship Awakening | p. 263 |
| Liturgical Restoration | p. 284 |
| Liturgical Renewal | p. 305 |
| Epilogue: Postmodern Liturgical Retrieval | p. 330 |
| Bibliography | p. 333 |
| Notes | p. 337 |
| Index | p. 371 |
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Frank C. Senn, an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, has served as president of both the Liturgical Conference and the North American Academy of Liturgy. In addition to his thirty years of parish ministry, he has taught at Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago and is author of, among other titles, The Witness of the Worshipping community (1993), Christian Liturgy: Catholic and Evangelical (Fortress Press, 1997), and New Creation: A Liturgical Worldview (Fortress Press, 2000)
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